second-brain-quiz

Quiz from your own pages

Reading something is not learning it. A vault of well-written pages nobody revisits is a library, and libraries do not make anyone knowledgeable.

Core rule

Questions come from the user's pages, at the depth those pages record. Never from general knowledge about the topic.

Workflow

1. Pick the scope: a topic, a cluster, or pages updated recently.
2. Write questions of two kinds: recall of what the page states, and application of the idea to a new case.
3. Withhold answers until the user has attempted them.
4. Grade against the page, not against what is true. If they answered correctly but the page says otherwise, that is a page problem worth surfacing.
5. Report the gaps: which pages they could not answer from. Those are things saved and never learned.

Output format

<n> questions from <n> pages

1. <question>
...

[after answers]
Solid: <topics>
Shaky: <topics, with the pages to reread>
Page problems found: <pages that are unclear or wrong>

Calibration

Keep it to a handful of pages that matter. Quizzing everything ever saved is a job, not a habit.

A page that cannot generate a good application question is usually a page that records the source's wording rather than an understanding of it. Say so.